Cody vs Contentful
AI coding assistant by Sourcegraph — code graph + enterprise codebase context
vs. Enterprise headless CMS — Compose + Studio + Personalization
Pricing tiers
Cody
Cody Free
$0. 500 autocompletes + 20 chat messages/mo. Claude Sonnet + GPT-4o-mini.
Free
Cody Pro
$9/user/mo. Unlimited autocomplete, unlimited chat, premium LLMs (Claude Opus, GPT-5).
$9/mo
Enterprise Starter
$19/user/mo. Adds advanced context (code graph), SSO, centralized billing.
$19/mo
Enterprise
$59/user/mo. On-prem deploy option, full Sourcegraph platform, audit logs, SLA.
$59/mo
Contentful
Free
10 users, 2 roles, 2 locales, 100K API calls/mo, 50 GB CDN, 10K records, 25 content types.
Free
Lite
$300/mo. 20 users, 3 roles, 3 locales, 1M API calls/mo, 100 GB CDN.
$300/mo
Premium
Custom. Unlimited API calls, unlimited spaces, 24/7 support, 99.99% SLA.
Custom
Personalization Add-on
Start/Core/Scale (100K/500K/1M MAUs). Custom pricing.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Cody vs free on Contentful.
| Metric | Cody | Contentful |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
Cody · 17 features
- Audit Logs — Enterprise compliance.
- Autocomplete — Inline code completion.
- Batch Changes (Enterprise) — Large-scale automated refactors.
- Chat — Conversational AI with @-context.
- Code Graph Context — Automatic dependency-aware context.
- Commands (Slash) — Pre-built prompts (/explain, /doc, /test).
- Custom Prompts — Shareable team-level prompt library.
- Inline Edit — Highlight code → edit via natural language.
- JetBrains Plugin — IntelliJ/PyCharm/WebStorm/etc.
- @ Mentions — Add files/symbols/URLs as context.
- Multi-LLM Selection — Pick Claude/GPT/Gemini per request.
- Neovim Plugin — Nvim integration.
- On-Prem Deploy (Enterprise) — Self-host full Sourcegraph + Cody.
- OpenCtx Extensions — Third-party context providers.
- Prompts Library — Team-wide reusable prompts.
- SSO (Enterprise) — SAML + OIDC.
- VS Code Extension — Primary IDE.
Contentful · 17 features
- AI Actions — AI content generation/translation/editing in workflow.
- App Framework — Build custom apps + extensions for the web UI.
- Compose — Visual page-building UI for editors.
- Content Delivery API — Read-only, cached, fast (CDN-backed) for published content.
- Contentful Studio — AI-assisted multi-channel composition.
- Content Management API — Full read/write for admin + authoring tools.
- Content Modeling — Rich content types with fields, references, validations.
- Environments — Branchable content workspaces (staging, preview, etc.).
- GraphQL Content API — Flexible queries with pagination, filtering, nested references.
- Images API — On-the-fly image manipulation (crop, resize, format).
- Localization — Multi-locale content with inheritance.
- Marketplace Apps — 300+ apps: Cloudinary, Shopify, BigCommerce, Optimizely, etc.
- Personalization — Content variants by audience. Acquired Ninetailed 2024.
- Scheduled Publishing — Queue entries for future publish.
- Tasks + Comments — Editorial collaboration.
- Webhooks — HTTP + transformation on publish/unpublish/archive.
- Workflows — Editorial approval + publication workflows.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Cody | Contentful |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | src CLI (context tool) | contentful-cli |
| SDK | — | contentful (JS client), contentful-management (Node) |
| REST | Cody API (Enterprise) | Content Delivery API, Content Management API, Content Preview API, Images API |
| GRAPHQL | — | GraphQL Content API |
| OTHER | Cody for JetBrains, Cody for Neovim, Cody for VS Code, Sourcegraph Cloud Web | Webhooks |
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